1851 ALS Amos Tuck Congress, New Hampshire, Washington, free franked cover & signed letter to Charles M. Brewster, Portsmouth

1851 ALS Amos Tuck free franked cover & signed two page letter to Charles M. Brewster, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Condition as pictured. Inciteful letter content discusses his political motives and friendship. From his Free Soil Party time period.  Considered one of the early and leading founders of the Republican party in 1854.  Condition as pictured. 

Tuck also was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln.  Tuck's political skill in uniting Republicans in 1860 has been cited in getting Abraham Lincoln elected as President. "Lincoln...would never have realized his goals," according to Dartmouth historian Professor Frank Smallwood, "if his old friend, Amos Tuck of Exeter, New Hampshire...had not played such an influential role in helping him to secure the Republican party's presidential nomination in 1860."